Berkeley
Lab “In the News” is our weekly review of Lab researchers, staff, and students
who have appeared in the news media this past week. This is but a sampling of
our coverage. Please note that some links may expire after time.
A Dec. 21 Contra Costa
Times story featured a recent talk by Lab Director Paul Alivisatos who discussed climate change.
The latest issue of National
Geographic magazine includes a story on microbes and cites Lab research.
The latest issue also includes a photo of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey and includes a quote with the Lab’s David
Schlegel (no link).
A recent Issues Online
story on ways to reduce carbon emissions in California was co-written by the
Lab’s Jeff Greenblatt.
A Malaysia News
story noted the signing of an agreement between Singapore and the Lab to
research energy efficient building technologies and quoted the Lab’s Ashok Gadgil. Channel News Asia also covered the agreement.
A Dec. 20 CBS Atlanta
story featured research by the Lab’s Daniel
Fletcher and Gautham Venugopalan showing
new insights into breast cancer. MedGadget,
the Huffington Post, Yahoo!News, Fox News,
and many other news outlets also covered their work.
A Dec. 17 R&D
magazine story featured work led by the Lab’s Andy Wyrobek to develop a quick way to identify people exposed to
ionizing radiation. http://www.rdmag.com/news/2012/12/scientists-develop-quick-way-identify-people-exposed-ionizing-radiation
A Dec. 17 story in The
Engineer covered work on microactuators led by the Lab’s Junqiao Wu. R&D also covered the research.
A Dec. 14 Los Angeles
Times story featured work by the Lab’s Evan
Mills showing an increased interest in climate change by insurers. Insurance
Networking and the Canadian
Underwriters also covered the research.
A Dec. 14 Earth
Techling story covered the groundbreaking of the FLEXLAB as well as new
work on ceramic composites led by the Lab’s Robert Ritchie.